Author
Freeman Wills Crofts
1 June 1879 — 11 April 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, the son of a deceased Army Medical Service surgeon-lieutenant. His mother re-married Jonathan Harding, the Vicar of Gilford, and Crofts spent his childhood in the Gilford vicarage. He attended Methodist College and Campbell College in Belfast. At age eighteen, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley Deane Wise, who was chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. He eventually became Chief Assistant Engineer at the Railway. In 1919, during an illness-induced absence from work, he wrote his first novel, The Cask (1920), which established him as a new master of detective fiction. Crofts continued to write steadily, producing a book almost every year for thirty years, in addition to a number of short stories and plays.
Books by Freeman Wills Crofts
30 titles
The cask
Freeman Wills Crofts
1920
Mystery in the channel
Freeman Wills Crofts
1931
Inspector French's greatest case
Freeman Wills Crofts
1925
The Pit-Prop Syndicate
Freeman Wills Crofts
1922
The Cheyne Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
1926
The Hog's Back mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
1933
The Ponson Case
Freeman Wills Crofts
1920
The Sea Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
1928
The Groote Park Murder
Freeman Wills Crofts
1925
The 12:30 from Croydon
Freeman Wills Crofts
1934
Antidote to venom
Freeman Wills Crofts
1938
The Floating Admiral
Freeman Wills Crofts
1931
Death of a train
Freeman Wills Crofts
1946
The Box Office Murders
Freeman Wills Crofts
1929
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy
Freeman Wills Crofts
1927
The Anatomy of murder
Freeman Wills Crofts
1937
Golden Ashes
Freeman Wills Crofts
1940
The Loss of the Jane Vosper
Freeman Wills Crofts
1936
The Scoop / Behind the Screen
Freeman Wills Crofts
1983
Man overboard!
Freeman Wills Crofts
1936
Many A Slip
Freeman Wills Crofts
1955
Six Against the Yard
Freeman Wills Crofts
1936
Found floating
Freeman Wills Crofts
1937
Sir John Magills Last Journey
Freeman Wills Crofts
1930
French strikes oil
Freeman Wills Crofts
1951
Anything to Declare?
Freeman Wills Crofts
1957
Mystery on Southampton Water
Freeman Wills Crofts
1934
James Tarrant Adventurer
Freeman Wills Crofts
1941
Sudden Death
Freeman Wills Crofts
1932
The affair at Little Wokeham
Freeman Wills Crofts
1943